With years of experience teaching parents and babies acrossthe country to sign, Michelle Anthony and Reyna Lindert bring theirexpertise to these interactive board books.

Each page focuses on one word, showing a photo of an adult tomodel the sign. Beside it is a photo of a baby making the sign toease parents' identification of the sign as young hands might makeit. Facing these photographs is an illustration of the object, aswell as a touch-and-feel!

 Authors Michelle Anthony and Reyna Lindert, both Ph.D.s inDevelopmental Pyschology, are skilled in American Sign Language andhave extensive professional experience working with hearingpreschoolers and families with young children. Both are activelyinvolved in research in the baby sign language field and keepcurrent on research in the fields of language development,cognition, and literacy. Together, they co-founded Signing Smart,an international program of parent-child play classes andmaterials.